by quasarn01 | Jun 16, 2026 | Astronomy
SpaceX shares shot 20% higher Monday as the company said it raised a record-breaking $85.7 billion. Go to Source
by quasarn01 | Jun 15, 2026 | Astronomy
Venus’ bizarre and extraordinarily slow retrograde rotation on its axis has long puzzled planetary scientists. But in a new paper presented at the recent European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, the authors argue that their models indicate a...
by quasarn01 | Jun 15, 2026 | Astronomy
When stars like our sun age, they puff up into red giants. Their bubbling outer mass gradually escapes into space, and their remaining cores contract into white dwarfs. Since most stars end their lives this way, the universe is teeming with white dwarfs. A new study...
by quasarn01 | Jun 15, 2026 | Astronomy
The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remnants, or...
by quasarn01 | Jun 15, 2026 | Latest in Physics
Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing and control that have the promise of outperforming traditional systems. Creating stable, measurable, distinguishable quantum states—which would be the...